The Hall of Fire

Wow this has really taken off since the last time I was here and gone to great places. I gotta be quick here so here goes. I agree with all of those who hold that perfection is a thing to strive for with the knowledge that you never attain it. I think of it like going west, you can go west forever a...

In no particular order Hejira-Joni Mitchel Ain't Got the Power Anymore-David Bowie Further To Fly-Paul Simon Reaching Out-Kate Bush If-Pink Floyd Redemption Songs-Bob Marley Kind of Blue-Miles Davis Rock n' Roll racist-term Smith Group The Aerobesques-Claude Debusy Well there's nine. This is really ...

My point was that the may pole dance is so different in nature from the pole dance we're talking about, as to make the comparison less than useful. I'm happy to withdraw the word 'silly' if it gives offense.[/quote] Point taken, no offense at all. I didn't want to give the impression t hat the compa...

Wow, these are great answers, I hope everyone else is finding it interesting. I'll show some of my hand and say that I pretty much give ascent to the idea that if your partner thinks its cheating, it is. Now you have choices, you can leave the relationship, try to come to some understanding or say y...

Pole dancing can mean what ever the dancer wants it to mean. What is a may pole dance all about? The problem is that meaning becomes embroigled in the political and that isn't necessarily a bad thing BUT,k no one should be aboe to tell a person "I don't care what you think it means, it really m...

Many of you are probably familiar with the "holodeck". This is a room on the starship enterprise (Star Treck the Next Generation) wherein one can experience a fully realized virtual experience of any sort. My question is this, is a sexual fantasy built around someone who isn't your partner...

I meant "agency". The question of whether anyone would want to read a book called "random debirs" is an interesting one and goes to one of the central reasons that the idea of God is so persistent. People like to think that the universe is a "morally realevent entity". ...

Well, the book is amoral because the approach is scientific, or is purported to be scientific, anyway. These are claimed to be the simplest explanations for why the universe is the way it is, and it's natural that moral motives won't be part of the simplest explanation someone can come up with. It'...

Hey jn? Iis that quan lin on your picture thingy?

I don't believe that logic can prove anything about God (or anything else). The only thing logic can do is say that IF such and such is the case than such and such follows from that. Logic is useful but overrated. The whole question of "godlessness" as broached above is clearlyproblematic ...

Jnyusa Yes actually the kind of idea I am aiming at can be seen in the cult of dionysius (at least as understood by neitzsche). You had interesting things to say Re sacrifice. I suppose I think of a sense in which sacrifice (in the sense we usually think of it) combines with generosity. I'm thinking...

This reminds me of part of Anselm's Ontological Proof of the Existence of God. What's the logical justification for this principle, though?[/quote] It has to do with how God is defined. If god is thought as something like Zeus or one of the other gods of the greek pantheon for example, there is no r...

Ii y'all First I'd like to thank my friend who invited me her (you know who you are). Second, I have a lot of thoughts about this little book and since I came in leat in this thread I hope none of this is redundant. First of all, the "mistake" in the book may be different dependending on o...